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Of course nobody is blaming literal MBAs. We are blaming this kind of managerial culture best symbolized by Harvard Business School and MBA programs. The whole
by elzbardico 3y ago
Of course nobody is blaming literal MBAs. We are blaming this kind of managerial culture best symbolized by Harvard Business School and MBA programs.
The whole idea that no matter what a company does, a generic degree holder, with an education heavily centered on accounting and finance can be the ultimate decision maker without taking into input any other aspect behind financials and accounting.
Most business type have this misguided idea that we engineers don't value business and financial knowledge. We do, what we question is the hubris of business people that seem to believe that domain knowledge is not important, and that managing a soft-drink manufacturer is the same as manufacturing a tech company. It is not.
The problem with your analogy, is that no nurse are being taught on nursing programs that all that matters is what they learn on their programs. If this happened, yes, nurses would be worse nurses by having those degrees.
- dangus 3y agoBut everything you said assumes the MBA and culture is a certain way. My classes quite often emphasized case studies where long term thinking, innovation, and quality were key to success: examples like Costco and the Toyota Production System were in my materials published by Harvard Business Publishing. The way that Trader Joe’s gives store employees the freedom to respond to local tastes was another case study I read about. My courses emphasized gathering feedback from employees and empowering them to make decisions. We learned about multiple different ways to compete which were very often not based on “cost cutting.”